Ukraine gained independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. In February 2014, President Victor Yanukovych was ousted by pro-EuroâAtlantic members of parliament after he used security forces to crack down on popular protests against his attempt to tighten ties with Russia.
They are generally thought to be called wisdom teeth because they appear so late â much later than the other teeth, at an age where people are presumably wiser than as a child, when the other teeth erupt. The term probably came as a translation of the Latin dens sapientiae.
Wisdom tooth: One of the large molars in the very back of the jaw. The human jaw has changed in size over the course of evolution, and wisdom teeth are no longer needed, but they continue to erupt in many individuals. If the jaw is too small to accommodate them, they may cause pain or crowd other teeth out of position.